From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2022 05:51:44 +0000 (+0300) Subject: ; Improve documentation of minibuffer history wrt completion X-Git-Tag: emacs-28.2~51 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0e336fa51fc2e9c99b91be61ef6d1a644df3e331;p=emacs.git ; Improve documentation of minibuffer history wrt completion * doc/emacs/mini.texi (Minibuffer History): Mention explicitly that minibuffer history is related also to completion candidates. Improve indexing. (Bug#57163) --- diff --git a/doc/emacs/mini.texi b/doc/emacs/mini.texi index 979be34fac7..4769b522a66 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/mini.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/mini.texi @@ -648,11 +648,14 @@ and if @code{one-column}, just use a single column. @section Minibuffer History @cindex minibuffer history @cindex history of minibuffer input - - Every argument that you enter with the minibuffer is saved in a -@dfn{minibuffer history list} so you can easily use it again later. -You can use the following arguments to quickly fetch an earlier -argument into the minibuffer: +@cindex completion, walking through candidates + + Everything you type in the minibuffer is saved in a @dfn{minibuffer +history list} so you can easily use it again later. This includes +completion candidates (such as file names, buffer names, command +names, etc.@:) and any other kind of minibuffer input. You can use +the following commands to quickly fetch an earlier or alternative +response into the minibuffer: @table @kbd @item M-p